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After Images

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After Image also known as image burn-in or ghost image is an optical illusion that continues to come in a viewer’s sight even after the viewer has stopped seeing that actual image. For example: If for a few seconds a person views a light source then before his eyes bright glow starts floating. Negative and positive are the two forms of afterimages.


Circulatory Pump Illusion


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When you look at the circulation you can see the blood is flowing. This is caused by microsaccades or Eye moment, and the tiny moving thing is believed are after images of the black and white lines.

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This optical illusion was submitted by Anh Pham.

(3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)
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Face Illusion


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Just keep looking at those 3 spot over the nose for 10 sec. Then raise you head to the roof or a blank wall and keep looking for 20 seconds. Share what you see with us.

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This optical illusion was submitted by Rebecca.

(13 votes, average: 4.69 out of 5)
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Italian Flag Afterimage


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Look at the x mark in 30-60 seconds. Then look at something white and you will see the Italian flag.
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This optical illusion was submitted by HTML_boy.

(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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Reversing Flower Illusion


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Gaze at the black square, you will perceive the red flower reverses after stopping. However when looking at the red flower directly it does not reverse.

Explanation: The flower reverses after stopping because it’s last images still exist in our brain, actually it is “afterimage effect” and plus with peripheral visual system.

This optical illusion was submitted by Anh Pham

(11 votes, average: 3.82 out of 5)
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Zigzag Way Illusion


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In this illusion, there are two motions:
1. the blue rectangle moves in straight way
2. the background with black and white color rotates in one direction

If you look directly at the blue rectangle, you will perceive it move straight and does not change its color. When you look at the red square, you will perceive it moves in a zigzag way (the direction of the rectangle depends on the current rotation angle of the background) and its color changed brighter when moving in black areas and darker when moving in Grey areas.

The motion of the rectangle and the background create two sources of information.
when we look at the display, we can discern multiple features simultaneously but its quite different when we look at the display peripherally. It is hard for our visual system to analyze sources of information exactly.

The motion of the background is global motion and the motion of the blue rectangle is internal motion. It could be the global motion affects to the internal motion because the global motion has a stronger affection than the internal motion to the peripheral visual system.

There are many illusions only work or work better in peripheral visual system (e.g: lightness illusion, color illusion, contrast illusion, image aftereffect)

In this illusion, the blue rectangle’s color changes is kind of lightness illusion but it only works in peripheral visual system. Sometimes, we are in “passive peripheral visual system”, for example when we look at a moving picture but when we really concentrate look at a point in the picture then whole picture will stop moving.

This optical illusion was submitted by Anh Pham

(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)
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Flash Colour Illusion


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Stare only at the pink square (for at least 5 seconds), when it disappears, the area in covers will be light green and light blue where the red square was.

Explanation: This illusion relate to “afterimage effect”, for some colours, it changes after disappearing.

This optical illusion was submitted by Anh Pham

(11 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5)
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Natural Hallucinogen Video


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See the video, it will surely make you feel that the things around you are also carving in and out.

(63 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)
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Seven Colours Optical Illusions


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In this Image look at the center of this image and then move your face forward and backward you will see that it will formn rings and move very fast but be careful it may cause harm to your eyes if done for long time

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(45 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)
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Zig Zag Optical Illusion


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Concentrate on the center of this image and it will become in motion

Zig Zag Optical Illusion

(57 votes, average: 2.93 out of 5)
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Mat Optical Illusion


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This mat is moving or not ? Check the central portion and we can see some bulging out of that portion

Mat Optical Illusion

(52 votes, average: 2.60 out of 5)
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